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Google Launches Search Plus Your World, Search Results Get More Personal

Jacob Stoops — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:20:26 +0000

Yesterday, Google launched Search Plus Your World, an update to their personalized search algorithm which will impact how personalized results are displayed to users, and will put a greater emphasis on security, Google+, and results coming from users within their own social circles.

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Google’s Farmer/Panda Algorithm Update & How It Affects You

Jacob Stoops — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 01:42:54 +0000

Learn about Google’s recent “Farmer/Panda” Algorithm update, release on 2-24. This change in the algorithm – which will impact 12% of U.S. sites – is meant to improve the quality of Google’s results by removing low-quality sites from first-page search results.

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Google’s Social Search Update & How It Affects You

Jacob Stoops — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:33:12 +0000

I detail Google’s 2/17 modifications to their Social Search results. Per Google, relevance isn’t just about pages—it’s also about relationships. This means that SEO companies need to embrace social media, and social media companies need to embrace SEO. But will they?

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Google Updated PageRank Today: January 2011

Jacob Stoops — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:42:23 +0000

According to various reports and speculations around the web and on the Twittersphere, it looks as if Google updated PageRank today.

As defined by Google, PageRank is a technology that determines the “importance” of a webpage by looking at what other pages link to it, …

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Google’s Updated Search Index: Caffeine + My Thoughts

Jacob Stoops — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:52:04 +0000

Google’s new index called “Caffeine” has been in the works for quite sometime, but it finally launched on June 8th, 2010. If it does what it says it will, then it may change search in 2010 and beyond as we know it.

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Microsoft & Yahoo Teaming Up to Fight Google

Jacob Stoops — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:51:40 +0000

Microsoft’s hatred of Google is well documented. They hate them so much that they’ve decided to team up with on of the other “Big 3” search engines, Yahoo. In sports terms, this would be like the Red Sox annexing the Dodgers to team up against …

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